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Kim Jong-il’s Personal Sushi Chef Kenji Fujimoto Visits North Korea for the First Time in a Decade on the Personal Invitation of Kim Jong-un

Controversial former personal sushi chef to the late Dear Leader Kim Jong-il of North Korea, Kenji Fujimoto has entertained many readers with the lurid private details of Kim Jong-il’s private life since publishing his first-hand account of working for the Dear Leader in the world’s most secretive and repressive state. Recounting epic feasts and spending […]

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Does Kim Jong-un Signal a New Direction for North Korea?

Immediately following Kim Jong-il’s death, experts in international relations worried that the regime in North Korea would implode, leading to a massive humanitarian and political crisis. Instead, thus far, the opposite has occurred, with Kim Jong-il’s youngest son, Kim Jong-un, easily assuming control over the world’s last Stalinist state. Already the younger son’s reign is […]

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What a Day! North Korean Man Gets Drunk, Falls into Ocean, and Floats to Freedom in the South

Few things in life can really be called luck, but for one man from North Korea, an evening of drinking turned into a new life in South Korea. According to the Yonhap News Agency in South Korea, a North Korean man was found hiding in a civilian’s house in Ganghwa, west of Seoul. The man […]

Kwan-li-so: North Korea’s Gulag

While the nation celebrated 100 years since the birth of Eternal President Kim Il-sung the 15th of April this year, the pomp and circumstance masked yet another tragedy within the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea estimates that 23,000 North Koreans live in South Korea, including many former […]

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The Juche Dynasty: North Korea and the Heirs of Kim Il-sung

Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un’s first speech to the public has drawn the hermit kingdom back into the spotlight with a focus on his youth and deadly nuclear arsenal. Propaganda in North Korea has raised the youngest Kim to the heights of supreme status shared only by his father, the late Kim Jong-il, and grandfather, the […]

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Any Person Caught Defecting from North Korea During the Official Mourning Period for Dear Leader Kim Jong-il will have: ‘Three Generations of Their Family Executed’

The totalitarian regime of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has promised death to three generations of kinsmen for any person caught trying to escape from the Stalinist state during the official mourning period for former leader Kim Jong-il who died in December 2011. It is well-known that defectors from North Korea captured by Chinese […]

Ultimate Frisbee flings itself into North Korea.

After mastering the sport upon his first try, Dear Leader of North Korea deemed Ultimate Frisbee fit for trial in North Korea. Ultimate Frisbee players from around the world gathered in Pyongyang this past Sunday to demonstrate the sport to the citizens of North Korea selected for their ideological purity. Apparently the crowd had fun, […]

Back packing with Kim Jong-il.

Kim Jong-il had a ‘fun trip‘ in Russia, traveling to the far flung northern neighbor by armored train to meet with President Medvedev. Greeted by beautiful ladies carrying bountiful pastries for Dear Leader to nosh on while talking about things like nuclear disarmament, post-modern interpretations of Stalinism and the best way to funnel illicit funds […]